The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise.

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.